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From: jsdy@hadron.UUCP (Joseph S. D. Yao)
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Subject: Re: drug testing
Message-ID: <394@hadron.UUCP>
Date: Wed, 7-May-86 07:59:31 EDT
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Posted: Wed May  7 07:59:31 1986
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Reply-To: jsdy@hadron.UUCP (Joseph S. D. Yao)
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In article <495@magic.DEC.COM> thain@magic.DEC.COM (Glenn Thain) writes: 
>     Children need to be educated on the matter of drugs and drug abuse. Not
>talking about this issue is what drives children to try and experiment. If the
>dangers were presented in an upfront, *adult* manner I feel most kids would
>take the message to heart.

I have to take issue here, as one who's tried similar things.
Yes, the matter is partly one of education.  However, one must
remember that children are children because they are  n o t
adults.  No, I am not trying to "protect the little dears" from
anything.  On the contrary, I shove my kids out into the front
lines of the blood-and-guts (literally) world.  My point is, that
these issues have to be presented in a different manner to a
younger audience.  Most people these days develop their ability
to react to things in an adult manner somewhere during their
college (or equivalent) years.  (Many I have seen do develop it
earlier -- that does not invalidate this partial generalisation.)

On a different subject -- folks, why pick nits at Mading's "Drugs
are the root of all evil."?  You all sound as if that were a personal
challenge or insult.  You can't deny that there  i s  a drug problem,
especially if you include EtOH as a drug (and, scientifically, it
is).  Mading's statement is rash, obviously, as there is totally
un-drug-related evil in the world.  So, let's treat it as perhaps
partially justified hyperbole (if you don't know, go take a class
in English!)  (for non-English-speakers, apologies, it means poetic
exaggeration) and QUIT STUPID FLAMING.
-- 

	Joe Yao		hadron!jsdy@seismo.{CSS.GOV,ARPA,UUCP}